Société des chemins de fer du Québec
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The Société des chemins de fer du Québec (SCFQ) is a Canadian railway holding company which owns several short line railways in the provinces of Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia.
SCFQ is jointly owned by Groupe Jean Fournier Incorporated and a group of private investors. It was formed in 1993 following the purchase of Canadian National Railway's Murray Bay subdivision, running east from Quebec City.
Since then it has also purchased, and now operates, several other railways, including:
- Chemin de fer Charlevoix (former CN Murray Bay Subdivision, operates between Quebec City to Clermont, Quebec)
- Chemin de fer Baie des Chaleurs (former CN Cascapedia and Chandler Subdivisions, operates between Matapédia, Quebec and Chandler, Quebec on the Gaspé Peninsula)
- Chemin de fer de Matapédia et du Golfe (former CN Mont Joli and Matane Subdivisions, operates between Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec and Campbellton, New Brunswick and from Mont-Joli, Quebec to Matane, Quebec, as well as a rail ferry and trackage in Baie-Comeau, Quebec)
- Chemin de fer Gaspésie (former CN Chandler Subdivision, operates the eastern-most portion between Chandler, Quebec and Gaspé, Quebec, although this trackage is owned by local municipalities)
- New Brunswick East Coast Railway (former CN Newcastle, Nepisiguit and Dalhousie Subdivisions, operates between Campbellton, New Brunswick and Pacific Junction, New Brunswick, near Moncton, New Brunswick)
- Ottawa Central Railway (former CN ? Subdivisions, operates between Ottawa, Ontario and Pembroke, Ontario in the Ottawa River valley)
- Ontario l'Orignal Railway (former CN ? Subdivisions, operates between Hawkesbury, Ontario and Glen Robertson, Ontario, was created in 1996 by RailLink, later became a RailTex and RailAmerica company, the line was purchased by SCFQ in 2000)
- Sydney Coal Railway (former Devco Railway, operates between Sydney, Nova Scotia and New Waterford, Nova Scotia and Glace Bay, Nova Scotia on Cape Breton Island, railway trackage is owned by Nova Scotia Power Corporation, operation is subcontracted to SCFQ)
